“We can never be too tardy to begin the work of blood.”“But it is a bad mode of settling disputes to make soldiers your ambassadors, and to point to the halter and the gallows as your ultimatum.”-John Tyler, 10th President of the United States

Since 1904, the only elections in which I would have voted Republican is 1904. In 1924 I likely would have voted for LaFollette. There were a few other elections in which the Republican candidate would have made a good President (Dewey, Eisenhower) but they were running against even better Democrats, so I would have voted Democratic in every election in the past century except 1904 and 1924.